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This course really gives a unique overview of the approaches utilized by media literacy scholars. It introduced fundamental concepts that aided in the understanding of the coverage of various occurrences by mainstream media. These basic terms have helped me look at the media coverage and reporting in a critical eye and even allowed me toContinue reading “Course Reflection –Final Blog Post”

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This documentary is portraying the incidents in Gaza after several non-stop mass shootings by the Israeli military forces. When a five day seize-fire was declared, the journalists behind this documentary went to Gaza and specifically to the “Shujaiyeh neighborhood” were most of the fire took place. Arriving there in the right place and in theContinue reading “In Class Exercise: Killing Gaza (2018)”

When listening again to the audio, I figured that the echo of my footsteps were heard most of the times. There is a time where a baby was crying in the background and the voice of some people were heard with the baby’s cry. Also, I missed noting the sound of a rooster that wasContinue reading “Class Exercise 4-Sound”

Covid-19, the corona virus’s scientific term, is indeed the dominating headline of all news websites, TV channels, and articles. However, the problem is that misinformation and disinformation are also accompanying these news articles. MTV Lebanon has had its take in this and some say this is for the purpose of gossip and attaining a scoop.Continue reading “Fake News About Coronavirus”

The Zapatistas are a group of indigenous people originating from the jungles and mountains of southeastern Mexico. These people had a target to retrieve the land of their ancestors that was stolen by the rich and the colonialists. They knew that if they had control over what truly belongs to them, they can be sell-sufficientContinue reading “Cyber Resistance”

During the Lebanese Revolution, a lot of bias was portrayed on the Lebanese Tv stations as most, if not at all, are politically affiliated or/and owned by major political parties in Lebanon. In the midst of the chaos, there were some independent media outlets emerging that were with the revolution and wanted to portray aContinue reading “In-class Activity: A Free Media Example”

According to Forde (2011), alternative media encompasses various forms of media: community, grassroots, radical, citizens and independent. Alternative journalism engages their audience in the public debate which in turn creates a more active public instead of basic consumers of what ever being fed to them. Alternative journalism can be practiced at any media venue (radio-Tv-commercial-non-commercial).Continue reading “Alternative or Independent Media”

Prison radio is a multimedia independent production studio. It works with radio stations but it is not one; they produce content to the whole world through this platform and other broadcasting venues. It is indeed a ‘free radio’ as we have mentioned in the previous blog post since it is not owned or controlled byContinue reading “Prison Radio: In class activity”